Read, Reason, Write with APA Update

by Seyler, Dorothy U.

• ISBN13: 9780072858181
• ISBN10: 0072858184
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Table of Contents

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Critical Reading and Analysis

Writers and Their Sources

The Writer in a Writing Course The Student Writer's Roles Responses to Sources Abraham Lincoln, 'The Gettysburg Address'

Bruce Sterling, 'Learning to Love Obsolescence' Guidelines for Active Reading Exercise: Active Reading

Rebecca J. Donatelle and Lorraine G. Davis, 'Child Sexual Abuse' Understanding Your Sources Writing Summaries Sample Longer Summary: Aaron Dalton, 'The Ties That Unbind' Writing Paraphrases Bertrand Russell, From 'A Free Man's Worship'

Robert J. Samuelson, 'Century of Freedom' Acknowledging Sources Informally

William Raspberry, 'The Real Pregnancy Problem' Presenting Direct Quotations: A Guide to Form and Style

Bill Gates, 'Beyond Guttenberg' Writing Assignments

Responding Critically to Sources

Traits of the Critical Reader/Thinker Examining the Context Understanding Attitude Recognizing Tone Analyzing Style

'Remote Control'

Writing about Style

'Choosing Families'

Student Essay: Style Analysis by Alan Peterson-'Goodman's Feast of Style'

Recognizing Language Abuses Combining

Summary, Analysis, and Evaluation: The Review

Annotated Review: Frederick Turner

'Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours'

Student Review: 'Winchester's

Alchemy: Two Men and a Book' Analyzing Two or More Sources

'Dinosaur' Stephen Hunter

'Disney's Digital 'Dinosaur': A Cretaceous Bambi'

John Leo, 'Word Games We Play'

Ronald R. Fraser, 'Let the Going Get Tough-We Have Our SUVs' Writing Assignments

The Basics of Argument

Characteristics of Argument The Shape of Argument: The Aristotelian Model The Shape of Argument: The Toulmin Model The Language of Claims and Support

Richard Morin, 'Paradise Lost' More on Toulmin's Analysis of Argument The Language of Argument Exercises: Readings for Analysis Marie Winn, 'A Commitment to Language'

Richard Leakey, 'Extinctions Past and Present'

Types of Arguments: Classical Patterns and Current Approaches

Induction Deduction 'The Declaration of Independence' Analogy

Zbigniew Brzezinski, 'War and Football' Arguments about Cause

Pietro Nivola, 'Pumps and Pocketbooks' The Rogerian or Conciliatory Argument

Abigail Trafford, 'On the Streets of Philadelphia, Prescriptions of Progress' The Uses of Authority and Statistics Responding to Visual Arguments Arguments That Do Not Work: Logical Fallacies Student Essay: 'Death' Exercises: Analyzing ArgumentsWriting Assignments Lester C. Thurow, 'Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men'

Preparing Good Arguments

Knowing Your Audience

Understanding Your Writing Purpose

Moving from Topic to Claim to Support Drafting Your Argument

Revising Your Draft

Guidelines for Preparing

Specific Kinds of Arguments

Student Essay: 'Magazine Advertising for Computer Products'

Student Essay: 'Examining the Issue of Gun Control'

Student Essay: 'Wisdom'

'A New Strategy for the War on Drugs'

'Gender Games' Exercise: Analyzing an Argument

'Addicted to Health' Writing Assignments

Getting Started and Locating Sources (in ihe Library, Online, in the Field)

Defining the Research Process

Stages in the Research Process

Finding a Workable Topic

Writing a Tentative Thesis or Research

Proposal Locating

Sources Preparing a Working

Bibliography

Knowing Your Library

Using the Reference Collection

Using Indexes to Periodicals

Locating Government Documents and Related Publications

Searching the Internet

Doing Field Research Exercises: Using the Library

Understandin

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